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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • They have learned. It’s a strategic decision. The election is just over, people will forget about Gaetz if he gets his week (singular, unless it gets leaked bite sized) of headlines now.

    Next federal election is midterms in two years, right? The same time meatball Ron’s replacement as Florida governor is elected. I give it 18months from now, and the report will be leaked over a couple of weeks. That way every time Gaetz get interviewed he can make more and more outlandish remarks, threaten whomever and launch policy ideas - just like the his senior Florida elected ephebophile has taught him. That will get/keep him in the running, or at least get enough spotlight for some PAC money. If it involves Mrs Matt Gaetz’s wife (Ginger Luckey) standing by her man “during these ridiculous accusations”, I bet he’ll be running for governor.

    If the report gets leaked earlier it’ll be because of a special election. It gets leaked later, and especially if the mrs is involved, then watch out. Because then that mother fucker (well, technically kid fucker) is going to run for POTUS after Trump.







  • I could see reasons.

    Like the original twitter concept, where you had to limit yourself. The pics I just saw when opening the link were horrible, but so is twitter, but that’s not the point.

    If you do pixel paint a good old bitmap, instead of compressing a too high resolution file like you’re trying to speed run hemorrhoids, then you could use the standard 32bpp, giving you 16.8 million colors and have pixels to work with. That gives you roughly 300 pixels (or 15x20), which isn’t a lot, but still enough room for artistic expression. When I say roughly it’s because I can’t remember how much is used for metadata, but IRC it’s less than 30bytes.

    If you play around with the bit depth you’ll need a bit more bytes for the header, but you can use a monochrome palette instead and theoretically get it down to 1bpp which should give you close to 8000 pixels, or 80x100.

    Is it super duper 8k high def HDR? Of course not, but when you impose a 1kB limit then HD is kinda hard to achieve.

    Maybe you can get something more, if you tried manually creating a jpg, like in a hexeditor, but I don’t really know, I’ve only done bitmaps by hand.

    Perhaps playing with discrete cosine transform after watching https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uNPbdenRs and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2aEzeMDHMA you could actually make jpegs by hand.



  • Way to make me feel old, I don’t know any of those games.

    Where’s my late 90s early 2000s gamers at?

    I’m going to nominate:

    • Fallout (1997) for plot twists and introducing (to me at least) open world role playing.
    • Fallout 2 (1998) for further plot twists
    • Max Payne (2001) for stealing bullet time from the matrix and putting it in a game
    • Mafia (2002) for being a kick ass game that would blow your mind, by making 6 hours of your night disappear, and not lifting the lid on that plot twist before you heard the birds start singing, and realize that you should probably hit the shower and get to school.




  • Wow, I suck at 18m.

    Do you? I mean if you’re shooting compound, have shot a couple hundred arrows a week for a year, and this is a 120cm outdoor target for recurve, then maybe you should take a look at your technique.

    Otherwise STFU and keep on shooting, the only thing that matters during training is improving, not some stupid number in the totals column. And improving is relative to the individual, not relative to the archer next to you, who’ve shot for twice as long and thrice as many arrows.

    Jokes (and cheering up) aside, I have three questions:

    1. Do you know why your grouping is going low?
    2. What discipline is this?
    3. What target size is this?


  • Don’t use an acid for mammalian necromass. I hear that NaOH should be a good degreaser…

    That or pigs apparently. If you already have the body in parts, don’t put in the freezer for your mom locate. I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.

    Actually, you could let the pigs it all, lock, stock, and barrels, and then use a healthy dose of lye (that’s the NaOH from before) to treat the pigs’ shit for any left over solids. I’m not much of a chemist, but I do reckon that you’re left with any identifiable pieces after that ordeal.



  • Hvor lang tid går der før 17årige poster billeder af alkohol købt på tanken kl 23 på SoMe med hashtag “lægeforeningen” ?

    Begge forslag inden for et par dage, og med lægeforeningen enten direkte eller indirekte som afsender.

    Skal vi hjælpe folk, der misbruger alkohol? Ja da, men jeg er ikke sikker på at fjerne eller begrænse handlen med alkohol er løsningen. Personer der har anlæg til misbrug, vil misbruge noget andet. Vi skal måske hjælpe på det niveau?

    OMG jeg kan godt høre det selv. Jeg lyder jo som en af de der våbentosser, der siger at våben ikke slår ihjel, men at folk med våben gør, og kommer med alle mulige andre platte forklaringer. Sandheden er, at jeg bare gerne vil kunne købe en flaske discount vodka i lidl hvert halve år. Eller portvin, når jeg alligevel er i meny. Og får et bolaget monopol, hvad sker der så med priser og udvalg?

    Jeg ved godt at det der er tale om, det er ikke en monopol løsning, det er en “alkohol efter 22 er kun på beværtninger” løsning… Men er det overhovedet den edge case man gør det til? Er det faktisk så hyppigt alkoholikere, det køber sprut på tanken? Måske en anden lemming har erfaring fra et tankpasserjob? Jeg havde altid forestillet mig at den afsindigt dyre sprut blev købt primært af folk på vej til fest.


  • Wow that’s rough. But thanks for following up.

    I can’t shake this thought. Losing your job, or your rent increasing beyond your means, resulting in your getting evicted… IDK, it just doesn’t sound like it’s so impossible for most Americans.

    But imagine that you lost your job, your SO says “never mind honey, I still love you, we’ll get through this. We have got that tent, and we always talked about going camping. Cheer up, let’s go sleeping bag shopping with our last cash” and then they end up freezing to death next to you two weeks later.